Wednesday, 22 August 2007

A truth or lie has to be spoken

You are in a hallway with two doors. One leads to hell, one leads to heaven. There is a guard standing by each door. One of the guards always tells the truth and the other one always lies. You have only one question to ask, what will it be? (assuming you want to go to heaven)

There is an answer to this riddle available on net, but Hamza and I found it to be debatable. So let us see what the great blogging minds can come up with.

12 comments:

one guard will say yes, the other will say no. the one that says no is lying because there are whores in heaven and hell... but the tricky part is - why am i assuming that the angel that is guarding hell's door is the liar.

i have no idea where your post title comes from (if you watched the south park movie, you'l know which door gandhi went through ;)

I don't know how you expected me to get the title what with my exceptional memory Google.....Man I haven't listened to them in ages, As for riddle I'd go through the one that has heaven written on top of it.

I'll feel more of a flake if I didn't admit that I asked around and now know the answer. I'm more interested now in why you think it's debatable but I guess I'll have to wait. Seems more a test of pure logic than a matter of philosophy...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ---> that's me thinking hard. Which reminds me I did that in an interview today - they asked me a question - I said gimme a minute to think about that (tried thinkign hard) came up with nothing - dammit.and they looked all expectant. I said "i can't think on the top of my head" - think I botched it up.

Junaid - there are no whores in heaven - they're Hurs - clean. pure, beautiful. (Tradionally whores have been around hey)

anyway back to the topic - hm... I would ask the one. The name asking was good by Organ.

Fuggit! I don't know. All I can think of is in Monkey island there was a similar case between two parrots, but you quickly gather whose the liar or not because you drunk up one parrot and you can then distinguish whose the liar or not (the one parrot is all woozy and shaking).

ok, this is a cool riddle, and i've refused to even read the comments on this page, let alone search around the internet for the answer... however, i've wasted half the afternoon thinking about it. i think i've got it though.. lemme know what you think:

i would point to one door and ask, "if the angel of lies was standing right there, would he say he was guarding the door to heaven or the door to hell?" - if the door was to heaven, the angel of lies would say "hell" and the angel of truth would also say "hell" (because he knew what the other one would say, and he is bound to the truth) - if the door was to hell, the angel of lies would say "heaven" and the angel of truth would also say "heaven" (for the same reason as above)

so, if both angels say "hell", then the door is to heaven and if both angels say "heaven", go to the other freaking door.